The Bug has announced the release of his new album, Angels & Devils, featuring a cast of collaborators that includes Death Grips, Liz Harris (aka Grouper), Inga Copeland, Flowdan, Miss Red, Godflesh's Justin Broadrick, Warrior Queen and Roll Deep’s Manga. Tracks are being streamed online via a custom built Soundcloud player which (appropriately perhaps) acts as if it has encountered a bug. The player doesn't disrupt the audio itself, only the player's appearance, via a series of animations triggered at various points in the playback.

The Bug’s Kevin Martin said: "Noise and static as hot-wiring agents continue to float my boat, so finding visual collaborators equally keen on deviant programming and chaotic detonations are welcome allies. And hey, aside from that, it seemed like a fresh idea, and I'm always a sucker for corporate bastardisation."

Martin added that he's attempting to shift what The Bug is and does by bringing in collaborators who form opposites of sorts, from gentler musicians like Harris to the aggression of Death Grips. Watch the player fall apart below, or on the album's site here. Angels & Devils is released by Ninja Tune on 25 August.

The collection of apps that formed the central part of Bjork's sprawling Biophilia release have been added to MoMA's permanent collection. The first software to be added was John Maeda's Reactive Books in 1994, but Biophilia is the first software to be added to the collection which exists separately as downloadable app.

Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design has written on the acquisition here, and view Bjork's Biophilia in the collection here.

The Alan Lomax archive, the Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), has reached its target on Kickstarter in only eight days. The crowdfunding campaign will pay for the completion of the Global Jukebox Song Tree, an online navigational catalogue of Lomax's recordings, logging similarities and variation in folk forms around the world in various graphical interfaces.

The organisation raised its target of $15,000 in eight days, and are doubling the goal amount in order to be able to add more functionality including new navigational tools to the Song Tree. All those pledging money will be granted early access to the Song Tree, among other rewards. The deadline for the campaign is 2 July. More on the Song Tree and the crowdfunding drive at Kickstarter.

Gonzo Records has released a live recording of Captain Beefheart made at Harpo's in Detroit on 11 December 1980. The recording captures a particularly hot period for the Captain on one leg of the Doc At The Radar Station tour. The CD, from the same label that released The Lost Broadcasts DVD, contains 17 tracks and include renditions of "Safe As Milk", "Abba Zabba", "Bat Chain Puller" and others.

More details at Gonzo.

Eric Dolphy's papers have recently been acquired by the Musical Division of the Library Of Congress, which comprises five boxes of material and includes several previously unperformed works, extensions of pieces including "Hat And Beard", "Gazzelloni" and "The Prophet", plus transcriptions of music by Charlie Parker, Bach and Stravinsky, plus his own improvisatory scales and transcriptions of birdsong. Previously, the papers were in the possession of Dolphy’s composer friend Hale Smith and his wife, Juanita, who later gave them to the flutist and composer James Newton.

Eric Dolphy's papers will now be available to those in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room.

[Hat tip: New York Times]

Musician, artist and Wire contributor Momus has published his first novel, UnAmerica. The story traces a sports shop employee, who is tasked by God to set sail and undiscover America – a country which has drifted far from His original plans. Momus (aka Nick Currie) told the Irish Times: "I tried to fill the book with all the unAmerican things I could, from Krafkwerk to Euripides, yet situate them in this little town in South Carolina... In a larger sense, it’s what America is supposed to do: absorb new people and new ideas and make them American."

The book follows on from Momus's previous books for Sternberg Press on Scotland and Japan. UnAmerica is published by Penny-Ante. Momus plays at Cafe Oto in September.

[Hat Tip: Irish Times]

Prophase Records is releasing a comic book and 7" set by Speed Guru (aka Acid Mothers Temple's Makoto Kawabata) and Chicago based illustrator and musician Steven Krakow aka Plastic Crimewave. Krakow also hosts WGN-AM's radio series on the secret history of Chicago music, and edits Drag City's Galactic Zoo Dossier magazine, among many other activities.

The plot is the written by Kawabata, the drawing is by Krakow, and includes aliens, magic and axe battles. More here, and on our Tumblr, Sleeves Received.

The fourth edition of Off The Page, The Wire’s literary festival for sound and music, is due to take place at Bristol’s Arnolfini over the weekend of 26–28 September.

Following previous editions of the festival in Whitstable and Oslo, for this edition, The Wire has teamed up with both Arnolfini and Bristol based promoters Qu Junktions to curate a programme that will encompass talks, presentations, film screenings and more. The festival opens on the Friday night with a special audience with Robert Wyatt to coincide with the publication of his authorised biography by Marcus O'Dair. There will be a full day of events on the Saturday, including audiences with Carla Bozulich and Paul Gilroy, plus new talks by Mark Fisher, Sarah Angliss, David Keenan, Julian Henriques and others. Finally, on the Sunday there will be a new talk and presentation by Mississippi Records’ Eric Isaacson, plus a pub quiz hosted by The Wire.

Details of the full programme, including additional speakers and extra events, will be announced in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, festival passes and day tickets are now available from arnolfini.org.uk.

"What I'm aiming for is to make a musical artefact that will unite the hiking experience, the scenery and the music," says Norwegian musician Trond Jervell. In line with this ambition, Jervell is is distributing his next release (a split cassette with an artist used to doing things the unusual way – Goodiepal) via Norwegian mountaintop.

Jervell contacted Goodiepal last year and asked if he would like to participate. "He was very positive," says Jervell, "and sent me a musical piece called "Acid Op I Det Fjæl Der!", which roughly translates to: "Acid Up In That Mountain There!"

Jervell arrived on the idea while walking in the mountains of Lofoten last autumn. "I was thinking of a way to unite the physical feeling of the walk, the emotional experience of the sights/view with a musical counterpart," he says. The solution was simple: make music inspired by the walks and give them away for free via the mountaintop mailboxes. He chose tapes because they fit in the boxes, and that they are harder to rip MP3s from, anchoring the release more firmly to the mountaintop.

Jervell will be tweeting the name of the mountain when he drops them off, leaving a walkman with the cassettes so they can be listened to in situ. "If everything goes according to plan, there will be a Walkman on at least two mountaintops around the archipelago of Lotofen," he says. "Hopefully someone will take the time to listen to the pieces in their right, natural enviroment."

Goodiepal's piece fills side A, and the B side includes a piece by Jervell as Xiotron, plus a description of how to reach the top of the Ristinden mountain, narrated by a local called Esben.

100 copies of the tape have been printed, and the first five were dropped in a mailbox on Offersøykammen on the western edge of Vestvågøya on 6 June. For more scenery, or details of where to get yours if you happen to be in the vicinity of one of the Norwegian mountains in question, follow @_L2XK on Twitter.

A new journal for music and experimental politics is launching, titled Cesura // Acceso, and a fundraiser is being held on 20 June at Limehouse Town Hall to help pay for the first issue's production costs. Performing at the event will be Ute Kanngiesser, Seymour Wright, Design A Wave, Anthony Iles, Marina Vishmidt, Mike Levitt and James Janco, with more to be announced.

The journal will be published in black and white, with each issue made available online as a PDF one month after publication. The aim, as stated on their site, is to "ignite, develop and sustain dialogue and discourse (which seems to be missing or hidden) between contemporary music and spaces of political thought and action".

The event marks the start of a crowdfunding campaign for the journal, and any profits after printing costs are covered will be distributed equally to contributors. Anyone wishing to contribute should email cesura@riseup.net.

The event takes place at London Limehouse Town Hall, 20 June, 8pm–3am, £5. More details here.

UPDATE: The Kickstarter is now up and runs here until 12 July.